Steve Pixler Selling Cornerstone Church!

[Jason B]

Originally Posted by Sister Alvear

And my dear friend I too understand you and your protection. I really did not read the blog...and my deepest concern is for his children.

I am very tender hearted by nature....Perhaps you know me...I really do not know your identity.

I remember some years ago a preacher left our church...he had been so hard...through the years...told on others that he saw doing whatever...and in time our people came to almost hate him... then he made a mistake....I watched others rejoice...when he resigned...after he left I sat on the bench and wept...a few of our preachers came over and sat down beside me and said, Missionary, the trouble maker is gone...why are you crying... I said because I remember the nights he prayed for others...the long trips he made to visit distant works and the bricks he laid building churches...

I am very tender hearted....but I do know right from wrong...

Once a preacher split one of our churches and took most of the people...we had been so kind to him...yet because of one little thing he decided to go another way...(no, it was not doctrine) I deeply loved him and his wife and children....One day Brother Alvear called me and said where are you? I said helping Pastor so and so lay bricks to build his church....Brother Alvear said, there will only be one of you...yes...the man was building a church 2 blocks from ours! (that was probably 30 years ago or more) The other day I received such a sweet letter from his oldest daughter telling me I will always be her mother in the Lord. His church came to naught...but I have never felt sorry that I helped them and even took food to them!

I guess I will bare my soul to you....another time a group decided to leave and they called me to come over to their house...they got out a list of why they could not work with our work...I really said nothing....just got on the floor before them and asked them to pray for me (Brother Alvear was in the states) I knew their son wanted to be a "president" of a work....that was the real reason...power....Yet time makes differences if people seek the Lord...One day at a minister's retreat their son showed up and sat behind me...after the lesson the pastor gave was over the "president" came and hugged me and asked for forgiveness....he was no longer a smart alec but had learned quite a few lessons....Today we are best friends. When I was so sick both his wife and mother flew from south Brazil to visit me and pray for me.

So we all see through different eyes even though we might really agree...I just don't want to burn a bridge that someone might want to come back over.

An old dying preacher that had done us wrong more times than one and sold a church and put a couple lots in his own name...was dying....on his death bed he said these words to Brother Alvear and I, "Missionaries, I have done you wrong on many occasions...if you will forgive me I can die in peace...I have no way to make amends except say I am sorry....Brother Alvear and I knelt by his bed and told him he was forgiven....Missionaries, he said if you would not have forgiven me I would have had to take this to judgment with me....He died the next day....

I want to (not always do I have) a heart that can reach out..and yes I know some people go beyond God's mercies...

Would you kind folks pray for me?

One of the reasons I don't condemn all oneness people. On the contrary I have defended them before people like James White and John MacArthur. Sister you are an inspiration.

I know from experience there are not only sincere people within the oneness Pentecostal movement, but many true Christians in my opinion. That said it is strange that when you leave the meanest people are often preachers.